Poisoned Apple

Mirror, mirror on the wall. Beauty’s just not fair at all.

IN The Beauty Myth, a provocative new feminist tract which should take its place alongside such polemics as Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique, Naomi Wolf argues that American women are enslaved by the cultural edict to be beautiful. They are victims of an impossible standard. The pressure, according to Miss Wolf, has become relentless during the past decade, as women have begun competing head-on with men in the professional sphere.

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Mary G. Gotschall

Mirror, mirror on the wall. Beauty’s just not fair at all.

IN The Beauty Myth, a provocative new feminist tract which should take its place alongside such polemics as Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique, Naomi Wolf argues that American women are enslaved by the cultural edict to be beautiful. They are victims of an impossible standard. The pressure, according to Miss Wolf, has become relentless during the past decade, as women have begun competing head-on with men in the professional sphere.